Gizmodo is running a contest called “Make in Eureka” (based on Sci-Fi’s TV show Eureka) where the winner wins an iPhone. The point of the contest is for the new devices to be a little wacky, yet really cool. The contest isn’t specific to Apple devices, but will likely be inundated with them anyway. The winner of the previous contest created the iRing, a ring-like device you wear on your hand that can control your various Apple devices.

The Idea

It’s a little late now, but I came up with a pretty decent idea similar to the Roomba. It’s called the iSuck and is named after the autonomous vacuum cleaner simulator I wrote for a class in college. The point of the project was to design an intelligent vacuum that could navigate around a room with obstacles and get back to the start point in a specified amount of time. As the vacuum kept succeeding, the mazes got both larger and more difficult to navigate.

The Design

The design behind the iSuck is that it’d look like an iPhone mated with a Roomba, only it’d be small enough to fit into a standard envelope. Anyone can fit a laptop into a manila envelope, but only true genius would fit a vacuum cleaner into a regular envelope.

The Features

• Travels aimlessly around your room, hiding its non-exceptional performance behind an elegant exterior
• Can only be programmed to be used in one room
• Inability to be used in conjunction with the Roomba’s docking station, for no reason other than to be a pain in the ass
• Touch controlled, because that’s the future – and finger smudges are sexy
• Intentional lack of supply to create hype

This is a product worthy of Apple’s brand name due to its design and functions. In case you didn’t catch the crystal-clear jabs at Apple thus far, iSuck is a double entendre, depending on your allegiance to Apple. iSuck would also never go on sale, EVER.

Disclaimer: I neither love nor hate Apple – fanboys need not get offended.